The Ghana Police Service says it has under its new administration positioned itself to ensure personnel exhibited international best practices in consonance with the vision of the service.
This according to the Director-General of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Commissioner of Police (COP) Isaac Ken Yeboah, will enhance the way the police control crowd and maintained law and order in the country.
“This is the first batch of recruit intake since the government gave clearance for the recruitment of 5,000 men and women into the service,” COP Yeboah said, adding that the second and third batches were still in training.
“At the senior officer level, the Police Academy, for the first time in history is running Cadet Officers Courses for 308 personnel at a session, which is the biggest number witnessed at the academy,” the Director-General of CID indicated.
The Director-General announce this during the passing out of police recruits held July 29th, 2022.
Three thousand two hundred and twenty-four police recruits passed out from five police training schools in the country. They are made up of 1,953 males and 1,020 females who constitute the first batch of recruits for 2022 who have successfully completed the Basic Police Training programme.
The graduation ceremonies were held simultaneously in the national capital – Accra, Koforidua, the Eastern Regional capital; Ho in the Volta Region, Kumasi in the Ashanti Region and Pwalugu in the Upper East. In all, 847, 416, 361, 612 and 725 of the recruits were trained in the regions in that order.
During the six-month training, the recruits acquired skills in riding, driving, swimming, crowd control, incident, disaster, crime scene and traffi c management, radio communication, intelligence gathering and community-based patrols.
Other programmes included charge office management, access control, arrest and search procedures, use of force procedures and human rights, client care and professional police ethics, tactical progression, weapon handling and high risk operation.
Addressing the parade, the Review Officer, Commissioner of Police (COP), Francis Ebenezer Doku, who is also the Director-General, National Protection Directorate, told the recruits that the Police Administration was taking steps to weed out miscreants and criminals masquerading in police uniforms from the service to restore the service’s reputation and good image.
Also, deserving recruits were honoured for their sterling performances in the fields they were adjudged in.
In Accra, General Recruit, Samuel Asamoah Amponsah, emerged the Overall Best at the NPTS and was honoured with a baton in recognition of his performance, among other presents
Sergeant Florence Aba Eshun was recognised as the Best Graduate Recruit Policewoman for the training school.
In Koforidua, General Sergeant Samuel Boateng emerged as the National Overall Best Under Cadet, while General Recruit Collins Ahenkorah Afrifa was crowned the National Overall Best Recruit as he came first in the national recruit standardized examination.
G/Sergeant Kwaku Aduenin Boakye, son of the Director-General of Legal and Prosecution of the Ghana Police Service, COP Mr Nathan Kofi Boakye, emerged the Overall Best Graduating under Cadet from the Kumasi Police Training School.
He was the overall nine best under cadets nationwide. The Ashanti Region also produced the overall fourth national best recruit in the person of General Recruit Daniel Oduro Anim, who emerged as the Overall Best Recruit from the Kumasi Police Training School.
They took home cash prizes, mementoes, baton of honour, and life and disability insurance policies.
The Baton-of-Honour for the Best Passing Out Graduate in Ho went to General Sergeant Daniel Ocran Agyeman, while the award for the Best General Recruit went to Francis Adjanor.
